potter wasp
A solitary, hunting wasp; adults make flask-shaped nests of clay and saliva; females provision nests with paralysed caterpillars or other insect larvae before egg laid; adults feed on nectar. (Order: Hymenoptera. Family: Eumenidae.)
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Potter wasps (or mason wasps) also known as Dirt daubers are cosmopolitan wasps that are typically treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but have in the past sometimes been recognized as a separate family, Eumenidae.
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